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> Okay, on my firewall, I had a really teeny HDD (1GB or so) that was
> quickly filled when I ignorantly downloaded the patch branch of the
> source tree. I thought I would either (1) image the old drive onto the
> new using dd or somesuch, or (2) mount the old drive as a secondary.
>
> OpenBSD went nuts when I tried (2). I got a number of "DEVICE NOT
> CONFIGURED" errors and ultimately it flat refused to boot. I had to
> reinstall (I know, I know . . . ) Trouble is, I wanted to get all of
> my working config files from the old drive, but couldn't and so had to
> reinvent the wheel.
>
> How can I mount this drive without OpenBSD going nuts? How can I add a
> drive to one of my machines in the future without this happening?

Adding a drive shouldn't be a problem - I've added drives many times. I
presume you've done the obvious things, like ensure master/slave jumpers are
correctly set. I also presume that "mounting the old drive as a secondary"
means you've added a new primary drive (with the old secondary
disconnected), cleared any old partitions, and started over reinstalling
OpenBSD *before* re-adding the secondary. Otherwise, I'm not sure where
you're booting from - a floppy? Certainly a blank primary drive and a
secondary with a bootable OS on it could get a little confusing....

Steve
http://www.fivetrees.com

Steve at fivetrees wrote:

> Adding a drive shouldn't be a problem - I've added drives many times. I
> presume you've done the obvious things, like ensure master/slave jumpers are
> correctly set. I also presume that "mounting the old drive as a secondary"
> means you've added a new primary drive (with the old secondary
> disconnected), cleared any old partitions, and started over reinstalling
> OpenBSD *before* re-adding the secondary. Otherwise, I'm not sure where
> you're booting from - a floppy? Certainly a blank primary drive and a
> secondary with a bootable OS on it could get a little confusing....

Here's what I did. I pulled the old drive and installed the new. I
installed OpenBSD on it. Then, I reconnected the old drive as a
primary slave. I thought I could mount the old drive from the new and
then copy files as needed.